José Dorángel Vargas Gómez known as "El comegente" ( people eater) and the "Hannibal Lecter of the Andes," is a serial killer and cannibal in Venezuela. He was a homeless man who used to hunt passersby at a park in the city of San Cristobal, Táchira. Once he was caught, he confessed to killing and eating at least eleven men over a period of two years preceding his arrest in 1999.